midterm Flashcards
(29 cards)
NAFTA (what is it, what countries are involved)
Ask Kay
The indigenous group that lived in the Los Angeles area before us
Tongva tribe
The Columbian exchange
Describes the complex and multi-faceted chain of ecological exchanges and other impacts that began with Columbus’ 1492 landfall
from historian Alfred Crosby (1972)
Pristine Myth
The idea that land was not changed by the Native Americans because there were not that many and the land was pure and clean and beautiful
the ways that Native Americans actually used and modified the land
Creating and managing forests and fields
• Fire
• Rotational agriculture
• Tree and root clearing
• Cultivation of beneficial species – nuts (walnut, chestnut, butternut, hickory
nut, pecan); fruit-bearing species (grapes, plums, crab apples); medicinal plants like smooth alder
Major differences between colonial and Native understandings of property
ask Kay
Possible ways of defining North America
Ask Kay
Types of colonialism
Metropole (or Exploitation) Colonialism
• Plantation Colonialism
• Settler Colonialism
colonialism
A practice of domination which involves the subjugation of one people to another
imperialism
Ability of one country to exercise power over another, whether through settlement, sovereignty, or indirect mechanisms of control
metropole
Metropole (mother land) claims sovereignty over the colony
• Focuses on access to labor and resources for export • Key role of colonial administrators
plantation colonialism
- Hybrid system which focuses on the intensive use of the land and exploitation of labor
- Often rely on slave labor
Settler Colonialism
- Focuses on land, not labor
- Involves large-scale immigration
- Often motivated by religious, political, or economic motives
White Man’s Burden, particularly how it links up to the reading on Indian boarding schools
By Rudyard Kipling
Because Native Americans are uneducated and unable to fall into white civilization, it is the burden of white people to teach native americans how to behave in harsh ways. involved the boarding schools with the mean nuns
Primitive accumulation - what is it, whose idea is it
created by Marx and explained how a feudalistic society changes to a capitalistic society.
Blood quantum requirements - what are they?
Blood Quantum: percentage of Native American blood that would allow people into the tribe; varies between 1/16-1/2
Very different from the “one-drop” idea
Continents as one type of metageography
the set of spatial structures through which people order their knowledge of the world
continents are the foundation of meta geography
Problems with using the nation-state as a scale/unit of analysis
Since states are still considered primary units of study, world regional configurations are almost never allowed to violate their borders
There are nations that share cultural ties with another area but do not have their own state
Strabo and the origin of regional geography
Origins begin with greek geographer Strabo
Lived in the Roman Empire
“Geographers want to describe parts of the Earth”–Strabo
Wrote a book called geographica and described the world as he knew it
the geographical imagination, particularly how it links up to travel stories like Travels with Charley
Parallel to the sociological imagination
“relationship between the personal experience and a wider society”
The way Iraqis were portrayed during the war on terror
Metis people
Came as a result of settlers and aboriginal people doing the do
This group is a distinct group of aboriginal people
Have a lot of pride going towards the settlers of canada
largest aboriginal group in canada
basic details about the three types of land surveying we’ve encountered (metes and bounds, long lot system, township and range system)
look at notes
why import tariffs were important in Canada’s history
McDonald made tariffs important for trading
Four sectors of regional economies, transition from industrial to post-industrial economies
Primary – agriculture and extractive industries
Secondary – manufacturing and industry
Tertiary – service and distribution
Quaternary – management, tech, and knowledge-based industries
